Yongkuk Park
Postdoctoral Researcher Chemical Engineering University of Massachusetts Amherst
Contact 📧 Email: yongkukpark@umass.edu
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I am currently looking for a postdoc position! Please feel free to email me if you think i’d be a good fit for your group. Here is a copy of my CV.
I am a postdoctoral researcher at University of Massachusetts Amherst. I earned my PhD in Chemical Engineering, with a focus in bone tissue engineering. During my PhD, my focus is on developing in vitro bone tissue models that can accurately mimic complex biological processes and systems.
🔬 Research Interest
- Tissue engineering - In vitro tissue model
- Mechanotransduction, Mechanobiology - Device fabrication for mechanical cell culture
- Bone regeneration, regenerative medicine
- Nucleic acid-based drug delivery
- 3D Bioprinting
- Microfluidic devices
🎓 Education
- Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst (2022)
Advised by Jungwoo Lee
(Thesis Title: Development of in vitro bone organoid models for the recapitulation of bone complexity)
- M.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Seoul, South Korea, (2016)
Advised by Jong Bum Lee
(Thesis Title: Step-wise dual enzyme polymerization (SDEP) for fabrication of DNA-RNA hybridization-based structures)
- B.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Seoul, South Korea, (2014)
📊 Publications | Google Scholar
2021
Trabecular bone organoid model for studying the regulation of localized bone remodeling Yongkuk Park, Eugene Cheong, Jun-Goo Kwak, Ryan Carpenter, Jae-Hyuck Shim, Jungwoo Lee Science Advances
Science | AAAS
https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.abd6495?rfr_dat=cr_pub++0pubmed&url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori%3Arid%3Acrossref.org
2020
Double Controlled Release of Therapeutic RNA Modules through Injectable DNA–RNA Hybrid Hydrogel Sangwoo Han, Yongkuk Park, Hyejin Kim, Hyangsu Nam, Ohsung Ko, Jong Bum Lee ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsami.0c12506
~2016
Self-assembled DNA-guided RNA Nanovector via Step-wise Dual Enzyme Polymerization (SDEP) for Carrier-free siRNA Delivery Yongkuk Park, Hyejin Kim, Jong Bum Lee ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering (2016)
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsbiomaterials.5b00554
Nucleic acid engineering: RNA following the trail of DNA Hyejin Kim, Yongkuk Park, Jieun Kim, Jaepil Jeong, Sangwoo Han, Jae Sung Lee, Jong Bum Lee ACS Combinatorial Science (2016)
Technological development of structural DNA/RNA-based RNAi systems and their applications Eun Hye Jeong, Hyejin Kim, Bora Jang, Hyesoo Cho, Jaehee Ryu, Boyeon Kim, Yongkuk Park, Jieun Kim, Jong Bum Lee, Hyukjin Lee Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews (2016)
Self-assembled Messenger RNA Nanoparticles (mRNA-NPs) for Efficient Gene Expression Hyejin Kim, Yongkuk Park, Jong Bum Lee Scientific Reports (2015)
Self-assembly of Free-standing RNA Membranes Daehoon Han, Yongkuk Park, Hyejin Kim, Jong Bum Lee Nature Communications (2014)
Self-assembly of free-standing RNA membranes
Nature Communications - Nucleic acids possess a number of properties that can be beneficial for the fabrication of nanomaterials. Here, the authors present an enzymatically synthesised RNA...
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms5367
Enzymatic Size Control of RNA Particles using Complementary Rolling Circle Transcription (cRCT) Method for Efficient siRNA Production Daehoon Han, Yongkuk Park, Hyangsu Nam, Jong Bum Lee Chemical Communications (2014)